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Slashdot points us to an article about a new research report, commissioned by a biotech trade group that argues the evidence shows that patents spur innovation, rather than hinder it. However, as some quickly noticed, the report has severe methodological flaws, starting with the fact that it seems to use...

www.avc.com

I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put...

www.engadget.com

Technology companies went wild bidding on generic top-level domains (gTLDs) once the opportunity presented itself. That seemingly impulsive behavior hasn't sat well with the Government Advisory Committee, which just posted a list of its member countries' initial 250 objections over the internet gold rush. While the list is broad,...

torrentfreak.com

Earlier this year we reported on a brand new anti-censorship WordPress plugin called RePress. RePress turns any WordPress blog into a fully operational proxy. It’s a useful tool for people whose speech is restricted by oppressive regimes, but also handy for downloaders in the Netherlands, the UK and other countries...

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Judge agrees that Apple's proxy probably broke SEC rules, but hesitates to intercede FORTUNE -- It looks like billionaire hedge-fund manager David Einhorn won half his battle with Apple (AAPL) in a New York federal court Tuesday. Lawyers for Greenlight Capital, Einhorn's firm, had argued that putting into one proposition...

betabeat.com

(Screencap: YouTube) Do you hate your own children and wish they would just stop being so freakin' annoying? Do you pray that they'd just go the fuck to sleep for once so you can watch The X Factor in peace? Luckily, a new pair of high tech pajamas called "Smart Pajamas" will...

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While the Freakonomics guys have shown a willingness in the past to be skeptical about the traditional claims concerning copyright, they often seem to have a blindness to similar criticisms of patents. In fact, in the Freakonomics book sequel Superfreakonomics, there's what's basically a puff piece about massive patent troll...

venturebeat.com

Motorola Mobility, say hello (again) to the Windy City. Google could be taking its ongoing acquisition to Chicago, if a report by Chicago Business is true. According to sources, Google has been looking into a few separate locations, the sizes of which suggest that the company aims to squeeze 3,000 or...

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gigaom.com

In the five months since it came out of its not-so-private beta, MightyText has seen interest in its PC-to-Android smartphone SMS synchronization service surge. It’s nearly quintupled its user base from 250,000 to 1.2 million and is on pace to deliver 4 billion messages this year. MightyText, however, isn’t stopping...

thenextweb.com

This week, the Internet was captivated by a story of how a US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit and watch cat videos. The unnamed man, referred to simply as Bob, working for the unnamed US-based critical infrastructure company, has been called everything from lazy...

techcrunch.com

Chalk this one up as crazy-stupid or the future: SoPost, a new UK startup launching today, is on a mission to reinvent the postal address by mapping things like Twitter handles, Facebook names, email addresses and other social IDs to a physical location to make it easier and more convenient...

thenextweb.com

While Skype remains banned in the UAE, the restriction could easily be lifted following a licensing agreement with the country’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). Speaking about the restriction, Mohamed Al Ghanim, the TRA’s Director General said, “It is purely a licensing matter.” The statements were made during a ‘tweet chat‘,...

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While I can’t be at SXSW in-person this year, I’m sending a proxy. Literally. If you are headed to Austin, allow me to introduce you to … “Cowboy Todd.” Inspired and designed by my friend David Alston and his crew at Radian6, this 6–foot tall cut-out will be making the...

www.engadget.com

Perpetually forgetful Android users no longer have to adopt a Chrome beta to coordinate their lives. Just a month after the test version of Chrome 26 arrived with autofill and password syncing, its stable version has appeared with the same option to remember form and login details between supporting...

blog.programmableweb.com

These days everything from your mobile phone to your desktop PC will most likely have an Internet connection. This means you you can send an email, collaborate on a document or share a photo between almost any device using the myriad of web services that are available today. But printers are still...

www.geekwire.com

The ongoing saga of Clearwire has taken yet another turn as the independent shareholder firm Glass Lewis & Co. has recommended that minority shareholders in the Bellevue broadband wireless company vote against the increased offer from Sprint. The move comes a day after Crest Financial, which holds eight percent of...

www.businessinsider.com

On Facebook's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg just said that payments revenue from Zynga dropped 20 percent year over year in the third quarter. But that's not because people aren't playing games on Facebook. Other game publishers are doing well, in part because they're delivering real-time, player-against-player gaming or...

arstechnica.com

Apple has issued a response to a lawsuit by Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn accusing the company of being too stingy with investors. In a statement posted to its website on Thursday afternoon, Apple reiterated its (relatively new) strategy for paying out dividends and returning cash to shareholders....

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It's really quite ridiculous how much time, money and effort the various arms of the entertainment industry have spent trying to get certain countries to "block" The Pirate Bay. Every single time it happens, it seems to drive up traffic to the site. Those who want to use it don't...

thenextweb.com

Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings saw his overall compensation increase by 68%, a proxy that the DVD rental and online streaming company filed today at the SEC reveals. While this data is somewhat hidden by the fact that his salary decreased, it is unlikely to please the company’s shareholders after a difficult...

techcrunch.com

Social sharing is becoming a big contributor to traffic for many sites. While Facebook and Twitter drive more sharing than any other services, Google is trying to compete with Buzz, which is now part of Gmail but shares links to article and blog posts through Google Reader. Over the...

techcrunch.com

A recent post by a defecting Googler (at his new and previous home, Microsoft) suggests that a fundamental reordering of Google’s priorities has made it far less than the company it once was. A sudden comprehension of the danger posed by Facebook’s ever-expanding platform caused the company to enter a...

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Technologist Tim O'Reilly likes to say that the software of the future will be cloud-delivered data, augmenting mobile reality, based on real-world sensor feedback, in real time. Peter Batty (left), VP of geospatial technology at Ubisense, showed what some of those technologies may look like in a presentation earlier this...

thenextweb.com

Serving as a way for The Pirate Bay users to continue visiting the file-sharing website despite blocks by numerous ISPs in the UK, the UK Pirate Party has been formally requested by British music industry body — the BPI — to take down its proxy, dismissing the party’s free speech...

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Whenever something truly horrific happens, there's a good chance that people will find someone or something to hold at least partially responsible for the atrocity. The most immediate reactions are often the worst... and the most misplaced. The recent school shooting in Connecticut led to just such a reaction. As...

www.extremetech.com

If you thought the RIAA and MPAA were a force to be reckoned with in the US, the last few months have shown that anti-piracy lobbying is alive and kicking in Europe, too. Over the last 9 months, the British, Dutch, Finnish, and Belgian judges and governments have begun forcing...

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Last month, we reported on some silly research that suggested the economy would grow massively if we could just convince women to get more patents. The whole thing was based on some fundamentally silly assumptions related to thinking that patents are a proxy for either innovation or economic growth. They...

allthingsd.com

In another high-profile parry in its increasingly aggressive proxy first against Yahoo, activist shareholder Third Point has launched an extensive Web “blog” to support its case with investors called “Value Yahoo.” Along with a long statement — kind of a blogaifesto of sorts — about what it will take to...

thenextweb.com

The University of Oxford on Monday announced it had temporarily blocked Google Docs on its campus. The Oxford University Computer Services department revealed that the service was being frequently used for illegal activities which threaten the security of the school’s systems and data. Over the past few years, the university...

allthingsd.com

It’s been a quiet couple of weeks for telecom junkies after a flurry of activity last month. But another fix is coming, as soon as this week. MetroPCS is expected to file a proxy on its sale to Deutsche Telekom AG’s T-Mobile USA to the Securities and Exchange Commission in...